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You can also minimize it by not being or behaving like a boor. I'm already 46 years happily hitched myself, and if I had it to do over, that''s where I'd start off once again. It's amazing what the payoffs are in life simply for not being a jerk.
At some point it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for these guys. If you approach relationships with a negative attitude from the start, it's pretty likely you're going to have a negative outcome.
Until the woman leaves you because she's bored and takes half your money.
You are so jaded living at home with mommy and daddy with your government job thinking you are the world's economic and relationship expert. My wife and I left home at 18 with empty pockets and full dreams to start our journey and have been together since. We figured out how to survive in this big bad world you fear. And you know what, we are nothing special, millions and millions of others did the same.
Married people don't just combine their salaries. They combine many other resources they own (cars, furniture, equipment, etc and land they might own, investments, etc), and also may have in-laws who help them out with money gifts and things. So they do financially better by far that many single adults, even if those single adults have decent jobs.
Nationally, median home prices are currently about three times median household income. Outliers would be New York and Los Angeles where it's about 4-to-1, and St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte where it's about 2-to-1.
At some point it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for these guys. If you approach relationships with a negative attitude from the start, it's pretty likely you're going to have a negative outcome.
I'm going a little off topic, but I agree. When people become bitter and jaded in dating (I met plenty of those when I was single) they are going to stay single. Like the men who whined that "all women are gold diggers" but they themselves were asking me what my salary was and what kind of car I drove. One guy that I met on a date seemed put off when he walked me to my car and saw that it had a cracked windshield and because of careful budgeting, I decided not to spend $200 to replace it right away. I'm so glad we never went out again!
Married people don't just combine their salaries. They combine many other resources they own (cars, furniture, equipment, etc and land they might own, investments, etc), and also may have in-laws who help them out with money gifts and things. So they do financially better by far that many single adults, even if those single adults have decent jobs.
I'd argue that the benefit only flows from economies of scale, because simple combining of resources cannot increase the resources per capita (twice as much money and twice as much family for twice as many people is not an improvement, the benefit comes from having costs that are less than double, e.g. health insurance)
Put another way, one should compare the situation of two singles to that of one couple, not one single to one couple.
Married people don't just combine their salaries. They combine many other resources they own (cars, furniture, equipment, etc and land they might own, investments, etc), and also may have in-laws who help them out with money gifts and things. So they do financially better by far that many single adults, even if those single adults have decent jobs.
The savings on housing is enormous. In my case, my girlfriend is paying about $30K in rent, utilities, and cable/internet. That goes straight to savings. I'm 58. She's 56. We're both fairly high income professionals. That's probably $300K more in the retirement fund.
Nationally, median home prices are currently about three times median household income. Outliers would be New York and Los Angeles where it's about 4-to-1, and St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte where it's about 2-to-1.
LA is not 4 to 1 lol the median is like 60k and the average house is something like 500k
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